The Strategic Project Manager

JUNE 28, 2022

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram. The diagram above provides a basic structure for organizing a scrum process. Sprints set a cadence for the team.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age. The software uses example data to show its capabilities – nice touch. Entering PSK.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Scrum is simple to understand with some immutable principles & guidelines. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. The foundational unit in SAFe is the Agile team, with the option to use Scrum, XP, or Kanban. Let us dig deeper.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles. . Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough. SAFe is a framework that not only aligns team and the program level but also stays in line with the organizational strategy. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning. Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master. Experience in Scrum.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

In most cases, however, previous experience is based only on the small-scale use of Scrum or other agile methods in individual departments. What usually started in software development can now be extended to the entire company and thus, change the way people collaborate. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. To provide an initial taste of agile methods, consider the following list: Scrum – Scrum codifies the ‘pillars and values’ of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age. The software uses example data to show its capabilities – nice touch. Entering PSK.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Here are some fun facts: The first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955. It takes more than a few Scrum teams to solve the Transformation puzzle. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. It involves more than just IT.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

But I think I think it’s important we all know what just kind of Scrum, Agile, the whole world knows that if we have to escalate every decision, it just takes forever. And let me give you three strategies. Actually, for strategies to build systems to ensure the right attributes are in place to empower your teams as a as a group.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Many agile teams can benefit from SAFe®’s alignment, collaboration, and delivery strategies. Three primary bodies of knowledge make up agile software development, lean product development, and systems thinking. Cadence is an important aspect of agile mindset training. Scrum Master. Professional Scrum with.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Daily scrum ceremony. Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes. What are Agile ceremonies?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Market analysis and business strategy know-how and institutionalized processes are required to answer that question. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum. I mean, everybody’s like very familiar with Agile and Scrum and things like that but I wouldn’t call them agile coaches per se.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? It happened with RUP, it happens with SAFe, it happens with Scrum, it happens with everything. So what is the fundamental pattern of Scrum?

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Proofhub

JULY 23, 2020

Atlassian defines Agile as “an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches.” Identify and Tackle Roadblocks Sooner If you’re working in Agile, you’re likely also running scrum meetings. What is Agile?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? Those are the things that get in the way of making Scrum not work in a lot of organizations. That was kind of the hypothesis.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what that means to us is not just teaching people how to do agile or how to do kind of methodologies in this space like say for Scrum or what have you but really like how to create the kinds of organizations that really can do agile really well and really effectively at scale. They’re not thinking often about like team level Scrum.

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

Agile methodology has emerged as a dominant approach to software development as it offers several advantages compared to traditional methods. By having a regular cadence of meetings, the team can stay on track with the project goals and make necessary adjustments along the way. Let Wrike elevate your project performance today.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The term is used in software engineering; especially in development methodology Extreme Programming and Agile software development. — Wikipedia , Oktober 2019?—?. The Customer Representative and Scrum. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” ?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Why is it so difficult?

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MPUG

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new version of Scrum guide was released last month. It’s less prescriptive and seems to be intended for a wider audience group, particularly non-software users. It’s less prescriptive and seems to be intended for a wider audience group, particularly non-software users. It contains commitments for each of the Scrum artifacts.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. Delivering working software is perceived as an IT responsibility instead of a Business-IT collaboration. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. By consequence non-Scrum meetings will die out.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. A major part of project management is adding restraints and order to the chaos of building software. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Finally, you could avoid company-wide cadence entirely like the team at Gumroad.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. So everybody here, probably a lot of our scrum masters are that way. So think about scrum.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It is especially useful in software development and enterprise product management as these teams tackle projects and programs on extended timelines with continuous improvements, upgrades, and iterations released and delivered to customers over time. What is the Scaled Agile Framework? Full SAFe Full SAFe is the most comprehensive level.

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Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

Most people, as well as me, are used to Scrum (or more likely Zombie-Scrum or Scrum-But ), but I believe it is too early to do proper Scrum here. In the usual Scrum process, the P.O. In my over 25+ years in the software industry, this has been an all too familiar situation! One column per person/pair?

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

The model has been favored by software engineers for its efficacy and flexibility, and it’s beginning to catch on in agencies and startups. Most PM strategies rely on waterfall, aka a hierarchy of sequential tasks that ends with a big product launch. Agile vs. Waterfall. The 3 main roles of an Agile team.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make. Executives aren’t solely focused on delivering software to customers. We agree with that, don’t we?

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. This means embracing an iterative and customer-centric focus on all levels of the business, from how you build software to how you organize and run your customer support team, performance reviews, and growth strategies.

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Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

The new strategy should make the bank more customer-centric and enable them to get better, faster, and more effective at delivering value to customers. They did not have the skills or authorization to make software and configuration changes in the banking systems. The transformation impacted the whole bank.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. We’re trying to connect a strategy. If you just do Scrum, you’ll get the goodness out of it. You guys remember them?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Strategy (#Strategy). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Balanced Scorecard (#BSC).

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